6 The Re-erection of Two Fallen Stones at Avebnry. 



Samian ware found makes this the more likely) were found in the 

 surface soil round the hole. 



The bones of the skeleton are unfortunately too incomplete to 

 allow of measurement, but the individual to whom they belonged 

 seems to have been of medium size, and of about middle age. A 

 piece of the collar bone is stained green as if from contact witli 

 some small object of bronze, but no fragment of the metal could 

 be found. The fragments of the drinking cup, together with the re- 

 mains of the skeleton.are placed in the Society's Museum at Devizes. 



On behalf of the Committee of the Society, Mr. C. E. Pouting, 

 of Marlborough, and Mr. B. H. Cunnington, of Devizes, undertook 

 the genera] supervision of the erection of the stones, Messrs. W. E. 

 Chivers & Sons, of Devizes, being the contractors employed. The 

 Society is indebted to the Great Western Railway Company for 

 ttie loan of three jacks (two of 40 tons strength and one of 50 tons) 

 from their works at Swindon, for use in raising the stones. 



The plan at first adopted for the Cove stone was that of raising 

 it up by means of the jacks to a certain height, and then affixing 

 wire ropes round the stone to pull it upright by means of two 

 traction engines. 1 This plan was found not to be satisfactory, the 

 only result being the breaking of the wire ropes, tested to a strain 

 of 50 tons, without moving the stone at all. Accordingly the 

 stone was eventually raised to the perpendicular by the jacks 

 alone, being supported as the work proceeded, by a shoring of 

 timber and a system of wedges ; this method, though slower and 

 consequently more costly, being much more sure and safe. 



The actual work of raising the stone, the weight of which, as 

 computed by measurement, was estimated at 62 tons, was begun 

 on July 9th, and it was finally got upright on August 3rd, 1912, 

 the work having been somewhat delayed by the wet weather. 



The stone now rests on a bed of concrete 1ft. thick, the hole 



having been lowered to take it, and it is also embedded in concrete 



to the level of the surrounding chalk; it stands Sin. deeper in the 



ground than it did before its fall. 



1 Three photographs appeared in The Sphere of July 27th, 1912, entitled 

 * Adam after the Fall," " Raising Adam with Jacks," and " An unsuccessful 

 attempt to raise the fallen Monster." 



